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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Bird Dropping Moths (Acontiinae) » Acontiini » Ponometia » Ponometia fasciatella - Hodges#9102 (Ponometia fasciatella)

Species Ponometia fasciatella - Hodges#9102

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ponometia fasciatella - Hodges #9102 - Ponometia fasciatella

#9102 - Ponometia fasciatella? - Ponometia fasciatella

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)

Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)

Subfamily Acontiinae (Bird Dropping Moths)

Tribe Acontiini

Genus Ponometia

Species fasciatella (Ponometia fasciatella - Hodges#9102 )

Hodges Number

9102

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ponometia fasciatella (Grote(1), 1875)

Spragueia fasciatella Grote, 1875

Fruva fasciatella

Phylogenetic sequence # 931329 (2)

Size

Wingspan about 17 mm.

Range

South Carolina to Florida(3) to Texas.(4)

Poole(5) states the population from Arizona(6) may be a unique species.

Print References

Grote(1), A. R. 1875. Lepidopterological observations. The Canadian Entomologist 7(12): 225

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (7)

Dalton State

Noctuidae of North America - nearctica.com (5)

The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)

Works Cited

1.	Augustus Radcliffe Grote, Lepidopterist (1841-1903)

2.	Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .

3.	Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Florida

4.	Moths of Brackenridge Field Laboratory University of Texas at Austin

5.	Noctuidae of North America (nearctica.com)

6.	Moths of Southeast Arizona

7.	North American Moth Photographers Group

8.	BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems

Contributed by tom murray on 26 September, 2009 - 10:21pm
Additional contributions by Maury Heiman, Chris Grinter, Randy Hardy, Kyhl Austin
Last updated 1 August, 2017 - 1:13pm

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